This is an archived event from Culture Days 2025.
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Folds in Our Unfolding Trajectories
In-person
Music Sculpture & installation Digital & new mediaDate and time
Location
Guelph Youth Music Centre
75 Cardigan Street
Guelph, ON
Access
Free.
Offered in English.
Wheelchair accessible and has gender-neutral washrooms.
About
Title: Folds in Our Unfolding Trajectories
Artist: Dave Riedstra
https://daveriedstra.com/
Presented by: Guelph Youth Music Centre and Ed Video Media Arts Centre
Media: Eight hanging wooden forms, transducers, piezoelectric elements, single-board computer, SuperCollider, audio and mounting hardware.
About: Folds in Our Unfolding Trajectories is a sound installation in which hanging wooden forms resonate with the acoustic space and ongoing activity of the Guelph Youth Music Centre atrium. Sounds and movement in the space interact with the position of the hanging objects, changing the patterns of resonance that ring out through their quiet feedback. Audio processing monitors these changes and incorporates their movement into its own generative system, further interacting with the sound. Gently incorporating human, arboreal, machine, and other processes and histories into a mixture of present sound, Folds in... weaves its own trajectory among those in the atrium's ecosystem.
Artist Bio: Dave Riedstra is a Guelph-based artist who works with quiet sound. A long-time composer and performer of experimental music, over the past 10 years his work increasingly incorporates sound sculpture, transient public art, instrument building, coding, circuit building, and other activities. Throughout all of these, he uses sound to generate arrangements that respond to those listening to them in order to cultivate sensitivity to everyday entanglement. Riedstra is a frequent technical and artistic collaborator; recent projects include the creation of a new string resonator instrument with Gayle Young and Mitch Renaud and the development of
software for gestural control of live audio spatialization with James Harley. The design and code for these can be found alongside scores, recordings, text, and interactive works at daveriedstra.com. Riedstra's artistic and academic work has been presented across Canada, the UK, Europe, and online.
Links
- GYMC Website gymc.ca
- Ed Video Website edvideo.org
- Dave Riedstra Website daveriedstra.com
Organizer
Guelph Youth Music Centre & Ed Video Media Arts Centre
The Guelph Youth Music Centre is a unique facility that educates, enriches and fosters the development of our youth through music and the arts.